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Large glass surfaces provide good lighting conditions in the building all year round. The Norwegian company DBC AS, a customer of Dlubal Software, was responsible for the structural analysis of the school and the detailed planning of all in situ concrete constructions. In addition, DBC AS delivered the internal forces calculated in RFEM to the producer of the prefabricated construction parts (concrete and steel).
Structure
The entire spatial model was entered and calculated in structural FEA software RFEM. It consists of steel, reinforced concrete, and timber and includes 1,421 members and 193 surfaces.
The roof covering of the school is realized with Lett‑Tak elements (sandwich elements with integrated thin steel sections). These elements have a very high load-bearing capacity for vertical loads (span up to 59 ft). However, they tend to be subjected to shear behavior. In order to represent the roof panels correctly, the surface elements with appropriate stiffnesses (determined by the Lett-Tak company on the basis of tests) were modeled in RFEM.
Two lift shafts and transverse walls of prefabricated prestressed concrete elements together with the steel diagonals ensure the horizontal stiffening. For the diagonals and columns, pipes and square tubes were used for esthetic reasons. Rigid frames were applied in the areas where it was impossible to arrange the bracing.
Data exchange between the structural engineer and the architect or other parties was carried out by IFC models. This way, it was possible to perform optimum collision checks. Moreover, this was very helpful in meeting the very tight building schedule.
| Structural Engineering | DBC AS Gol, Norway |
| Architects | Arkitektene Vis-a-Vis Trondheim, Norway vav.no |
| Investor | Municipality of Gol, Norway www.gol.kommune.no |
| Construction | Veidekke AS, avd. Hallingdal Oslo, Norway veidekke.no |
